There is always a need for profiling tools in databases for admins or developers. While it is easy to understand the point where an SQL is spending more time using
EXPLAIN or
EXPLAIN ANALYZE in PostgreSQL, the same would not work for functions. Recently, Jobin has published a blog post where he demonstrated how […]
In my previous blog post, we have seen how the extension
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At recent conferences, we have received a curious question from users who have used Oracle in the past and are now using PostgreSQL: “Do we have hypothetical indexes in PostgreSQL ?“. The answer to that question is
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There is a wide variety of indexes available in PostgreSQL. While most are common in almost all databases, there are some types of indexes that are more specific to PostgreSQL. For example, GIN indexes are helpful to speed up the search for element values within documents. GIN and GiST indexes could both be used […]
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A couple of weeks ago I presented at Percona University São Paulo about the new features in PostgreSQL that allow the deployment of simple shards. I’ve tried to summarize the main points in this post, as well as providing an introductory overview of sharding itself. Please note I haven’t included any third-party extensions that […]
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